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Brazilian plane crash hits home for Toronto FC head coach and players

Nov 29, 2016 | 3:45 PM

TORONTO — The deadly crash of the plane carrying Brazilian club Chapecoense hit home for Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney and his players.

They are all frequent flyers. 

“I’d be lying to say that the amount of times that we’ve been on planes as professionals and everything else, that it hasn’t crossed somebody’s mind here a time or two as you’re constantly boarding planes,” Vanney said Tuesday.

“In this day and age there’s a lot of travel that goes on in order to play these sporting events,” he added.